The Olympic Games is a great way to show the world how good Australia is at sport but even with the Australian Institute of Sport, which was built in 1981 and helped us get 24 medals in the Los Angeles Olympics by training the athletes, Australia is starting to lose the winning edge. Read the rest of this entry »

Some people, like animal rights groups, think animals are being treated poorly when they’re on long truck trips to wool places, meat houses, auction yards and farms. Other people have a different opinion.

The RSPCA want almost the billion animals on long trips each year to be more comfortable. They say it is stressful for the animals to be standing on hard floors and being cramped for space. Read the rest of this entry »

Many people think that Green House gases are making our world warmer much faster than expected. That’s where a thing called carbon emissions trading comes in. It’s where if you make a lot of pollution you have to pay to clean it up. Some people feel differently. Read the rest of this entry »

Tourism is people from other countries going to a different place and stay there fore some amount of time this could also be called a holiday.

Tourists are very important to Australia’s economy because it gives us a lot of money. But recently we have lost some percent of that to other countries like France and America because of the attractions. Read the rest of this entry »

Mulesing is shaving a sheep’s backside wool and some skin off, so that the wool won’t grow back. Mulesing was introduced in the 1930’s to keep the Australian Sheep Fly from laying eggs. The eggs hatch into maggots that crawl into the sheep’s skin, which may kill the sheep.

There are people who think mulesing is cruel to sheep. Some of the clothing companies from other countries are refusing to buy wool from farmers. There have been big protests. Australia is going to stop mulesing by 2010. Read the rest of this entry »

The space program NASA has sent out a probe called Phoenix, to try and land on Mars. But NASA is nervous about sending a probe to Mars because it costs so much money.

One of the main problems of sending a probe to Mars is stopping it. Stopping it is a big problem because it is travelling so fast when it hits the Mars atmosphere; they deployed a massive parachute and rockets to slow the probe down.

Scientists have to go though an agonizing 7 minutes, known as the 7 MINUTES OF TERROR! These 7 minutes of terror are when the probe passing and when it is landing. Read the rest of this entry »

Finally some of the troops that went to Iraq are coming home. Troops that left in 2003 have been in Iraq for 5 years finally get to see their familys again.

They have been in Iraq for varies reasons. One of them is to hunt Saddam Hassein part of the Iraq government; he has been manufacturing devastatingly dangerous weapons. He has also mistreated the people of Iraq. Eventually they caught him he was in a cave and later found guilty in a court. He was hung.

But some solders Australia and other countries are staying in Iraq. To help rebuild and other things like food and shelter.

But some people don’t like this they say the troops should stay these people are manly the old government who sent the solders to Iraq in the first place.

Then there are the people who are overjoyed that they get to see their loved. They are sending home 550 solders home. They are doing this to get votes in the election.

I think other countries are pulling out because they feel there work is done in Iraq but I do not think that they should leave. With all those innocent people still in danger. I also feel that the people of Iraq will be frightened once we leave.           

The main point of the story is to tell of the thing that scientists have discovered and what they can do with DNA. To bring back a Tasmanian tiger would be awesome. Another name fore Tasmanian tiger is Thylacine which means pouched dog with head of wolf’s head. Scientists think the Thylacine went extinct because of hunting, loss of habitat and disease.

Geans are DNA in side our body determining from how we act to haw we talk, eat and every thing else. Read the rest of this entry »

Plastic bags are a big problem all around the world. Australia produces enough plastic bags each year to go around the world 25 times that is 4 000 000 plastic bags. Plastic bags are made of polyurethane. In the factories heaps of green house gases. Read the rest of this entry »